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May 18, 2006
Contact: Pam Willenz
(202) 336-5707
To: Reporters/Editors/Producers
RE: American Psychological Association 114th Annual Convention in New Orleans, LA, August 10-13, 2006
Pressroom – New Orleans Marriott, Bonaparte Room
Facilities will include wireless connections for your laptops and two high-speed printers. We will also have working space, telephones, fax machines, phone lines for data transmission and APA staff resources for you. The press area will also be the site of any news briefings held during the convention.
Hours:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, August 10, 11, 12 – 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday, August 13, 7:30 am – 12 noon
Registration
Register for Hotels at http://www.apa.org/convention06/advance.html. Email for a PDF of the advance registration form. THE DEADLINE FOR ADVANCE MEDIA REGISTRATION IS JUNE 28, 2006. On-site media registration will also be available. Media registration is limited to credentialed journalists, others who have assignment letters on the letterhead of a media organization and public information officers from universities, non-profit organizations and government agencies.
Program and Papers
The program will be available after July 20 and onsite. Press releases and selected papers will be available electronically. We will supply you with disk key cards/CDs or email the papers to you as attachments.
Press Releases
Releases summarizing convention sessions, presentations and papers will be available the second week of August (a week to 10 days before the convention starts) at www.apa.org/releases.
Embargoes
All sessions are embargoed for the time of presentation. Press releases or press briefings on a session could change the embargo time.
APA Annual Convention Highlights
Thursday, August 10
Keynote Address – Diversity and building strong families from interviews with city residents affected by Hurricane Katrina, actress Anna Deavere Smith and APA award for outstanding lifetime contribution to psychology, presented to E. Mavis Hetherington, PhD
Invited Address – Update on the FDA warning signs about antidepressants and suicide in children and adults, Kelly Posner, PhD
Symposium – Stress and parent-child interactions, K. Mark Sossin, PhD
Symposium – Suicide concerns on college and university campuses, William Gorman, PhD
Symposium – Hurricane Katrina – effects on drug abuse, risk behaviors and coping, Stephanie Tortu, PhD and Yonette Thomas, PhD
Symposium – Innovations in treating ADHD in schools, Thomas J. Power, PhD
Friday, August 11
Invited Presidential Address – Making psychology accessible – behind the scenes of the "Dr. Phil Show", Dr. Phil McGraw, PhD
Presidential Symposium – Growing up with diversity: The role of psychology in strengthening families, Lonnie Ray Sherrod, PhD and Nancy E. Hill, PhD
Presidential Symposium – Stages of post disaster interventions: A seamless model across stages of recovery, Melissa J. Brymer, PsyD
Plenary session – Being first responders in New Orleans, Joy Osofsky, PhD and Howard Osofsky, MD, PhD
Symposium – Intersecting dimensions of multicultural issues in disaster response: aging, disability, ethnicity and SES, Azara L. Santiago-Rivera, PhD
Master Lecture – The New Gay Teenager: not sick, not gay, not invisible, Rich C. Savin-Williams, PhD
Invited Address – The neurobiology of stress: Implications for behavioral medicine, Bruce McEwen, PhD
Invited Address – Neural systems involved in fear and anxiety, Michael Davis, PhD
Plenary Session – The anatomy of human destructiveness, Sheldon Solomon, PhD
Saturday, August 12
Invited Speaker - Evening with Bill Cosby – Help New Orleans recover - APA will donate all proceeds to New Orleans public schools, Bill Cosby, EdD
Plenary Session – Leading a community through trauma to become triumphant and courageous, Marvalene Hughes, PhD
Lecture – Positive emotions in the stress process: Should we care?
Susan Folkman, PhD
Invited Address – Consciousness, information integration and the brain,
Giulio Tononi, PhD
Invited Address – Countering terrorism – the role of participatory governance for a peaceful existence, George Michael Mukula
Invited Address – Depression and emotion regulation among children,
Maria Kovacs, PhD
Invited Address – Role of biostress markers in optimal aging, Elissa Epel, PhD
Invited Symposium – Research on the nature of addiction, Alan J. Budney, PhD
Invited Address – Adolescents and adults with autism, Marsha M. Seltzer, PhD
Symposium – Suicide terrorism in the 21st century, Bruce Bongar, PhD, and David C. Clark, PhD
Sunday, August 13
Symposium – Issues of technology with older adults, Wendy A. Rogers, PhD
Symposium – Stress coping for top level leader manager teams,
Stewart E. Cooper, PhD
Paper Session – Responses to disaster, Constance T. Fischer, PhD
Invited Address – Neuropsychology of PTSD, Jennifer J. Vasterling, PhD
Symposium – Mental Retardation and the death penalty, George Olley, PhD
Symposium – Sibling effects across the lifespan, Toni Falbo, PhD
Other Highlights
Psychopathy and patterns of criminal thinking
Men in love
Predicting who will develop Alzheimer's disease
Using games, ehealth, virtual reality and podcasting to improve health
Needs of returning soldiers from global war on terror
Approaches to cognitive health in aging
Influence of uniform color on sports motivation and performance
Life long happiness – is it possible?
How do people change?
Biology of sexual orientation
The American Psychological Association (APA), in Washington, DC, is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world's largest association of psychologists. APA's membership includes more than 150,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance psychology as a science, as a profession and as a means of promoting human welfare.
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